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Durum & Ducks. Far away in North Dakota, where the land is flat as a flapjack and rich as Fort Knox, lives the Crockett family, descendants of Davy and just as tough. Bill Crockett and his two married sons Claude and Willard farm 5,000 acres of durum wheat, oats and barley in Cavalier County, just south of the Canadian border. Bill served as North Dakota's speaker of the house in 1935, still takes a lively interest in politics. But his real love, and that of his sons, is the land. Last year alone the three Crockett men spent...
Some of the youngsters could remember England only hazily. Others were frankly dubious about life in the British Isles. Like explorers setting off for darkest Africa, some had provisioned themselves heavily with flapjack flour, maple syrup, gum, catsup and other gastronomic delights. Small boys clutched baseball mitts and comic books. Older girls wore open-toed shoes, shuddered at an awful possibility-England might be "too dead" after the giddy pace in U.S. high schools...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...
...flapjack turner...
...quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World War I ate into its flapjack sales, and when the speakeasy era made its white-tiled, antiseptic restaurants look antediluvian to devotees of the intime hole in the wall...